Reverence Quotes - Page 26

• How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?

  Joseph Heller

  Running, Evil, People

  Catch-22 ch. 18 (1961)

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• It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Humility, Animal

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.20, Counterpoint

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• What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Life, Sweet, Heart

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.931, e-artnow

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• The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Ethics, Universality

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, p.237, Henry Holt and Company

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• In the final analysis, despite our diversity, there is only one type of vegan -- a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life.

  Joanne Stepaniak

  Practice, Diversity, Finals

  Joanne Stepaniak (2000). “Being Vegan”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.

  Zeena Schreck

  Spiritual, Religious, Culture

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• As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities.

  William Alexander Percy

  Teacher, Pride, Justice

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• You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that?

  Martin Amis

  Heart, Two, Soul

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Feb 21, 2013

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• Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it.

  Thomas Boston

  Christian, Men, Dust

  Thomas Boston (1848). “The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick”, p.165

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• The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually-to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul-harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

  Gary Zukav

  Choices, Soul, Survival

  "We Can Do Better Than Attack Syria" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2013.

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• The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing. This is not reverence for life, it is a great denial and more resembles Nihilism than the revolution that they think they are furthering.

  Dorothy Day

  Children, Thinking, Nihilism

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• Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Encounters, Sacred, Divine

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• For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Real, Sadness, Profound

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• People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Appreciation, People, Giving

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• I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Spiritual, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

  Margaret Fuller

  Patience, Stars, Lying

  Margaret Fuller (1961). “The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion”

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• The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Real, Party, Mean

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• Because, you see, God - whatever anyone chooses to call God - is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  "We the Living". Book by Ayn Rand, 1936.

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• She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Wise, Character, Greatness

  Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Good Wives: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

  Doreen Valiente

  Heart, Humility, Compassion

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• Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Kira, Highest

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.316, Penguin

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• There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

  Clint Eastwood

  Hate, Lying, Opposites

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• Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

  Tennessee Williams

  Hawthorne, Bunch, Blanche

  Tennessee Williams (1953). “A Streetcar Named Desire: Play in Three Acts”, p.39, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.

  Richard Rohr

  Sacred, Moments, Blindness

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• Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

  Pythagoras

  Stars, Self Esteem, Self Worth

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